You, guys, forgot one important thing: there is a big difference between plotting and farming.
Plotting is what kills your SSD, and plotting isn't as "lightweight" and "green" of a task as developers lead us to believe, but it only needs to be done once for each of your plots. Rich people use dedicated Xeon Platinum or Threadripper machines with tons of RAM for plotting, in addition to large arrays of NVME SSDs, though it's also possible to plot on HDD itself(only a loo-o-o--o-o-t slower).
Farming, on the other hand, only needs a whatever 4T CPU with lots of HDD storage, and consumes significantly less power (even HDDs are only spinning while you have a block to check against your plots, but 99% of the time remain dormant).
So, if someone decides to get into Chia thing, all he or she needs to do is open their eyes, turn on their brain(or at least a tiny portion of it), and RTFM. You can even guesstimate your TBW based on how much you want to plot, and figure out approximately when you'll need to get a spare drive. Plus, most high-tier SSDs can outlast their rated TBW by a large margin (SLC/2LC, or even enterprise TLC).
Just to put it in perspective, I'll use some numbers from my last experiment. At most I can generate around 2 plots simultaneously on a 1TB drive. I've only done sequential plotting due to space constraints, but if I can do ~2-3 plots per day sequentially, let's just assume that you can do 6 plots (~0.6TB) by doing a pair of plots at a time. So, if you have a 1TB TLC drive - you'll be able to exceed rated TBW in approximately 2.5-3 years (which is incidentally a most common warranty for low-to-mid-range TLC). For QLC it's theoretically the same if not more, since your write speeds are gonna fall so low, that you won't be able to generate more than 1/2 plot per day (which in terms of writes is even less than its rated DWPD). On a HDD it's even slower.
People have been actively plotting chia only in the past few months, so if someone's SSD died within this short of a timeframe(even QLC) - that's 99% manufacturer's fault and maybe 1% user fault due to some ridiculous operating conditions.
There are also some articles that use random garbage off reddit as a source of information, like quoting 1.5-2TBW per plot, which is f#$%ing ridiculous.
I've generated over 40 plots on my SSD, and here's what my S.M.A.R.T. looks like:
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This drive is more than 1.5y.o., and it's also my primary storage, and it suffered through a few dozen of agonizing 150+GB rsyncs from one of my work servers (lots of small- and medium-sized files) and gathered most of its TBWs thanks to bloated modern games, yet for some reason I don't see an extra 80TBW on top of what I had before, if that sensational number was actually true. Realistically your TBW per plot is the same or a little higher than the size of temporary files for each plot (e.g. 250-300GB). This means that my 40 plots have accumulated no more than 12TBW, and not that scary 70-80TBW according to reddit numbers (or whatever source those stupid idiots from tech news sites are quoting).